Those Who Leave: Petzold Collapses Past and Present with Holocaust Redux
Switching things up considerably compared to his previous offerings, German auteur Christian Petzold makes...
Miss Mom: Bispuri Challenges Family Symmetry in Captivating Sophomore Pic
With her sensory filled coming-of-age sophomore feature, Laura Bispuri navigates the sweet and sour voyage...
Inherit the Wind: Martinessi Explores Class and Desire in Impressive Character Study
While they seem to have outlived their best of times, the two privileged...
Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi's feature debut is one of the more unique queer cinema film examples of recent memory in terms of offering a...
Adhering to a framework that borrows from her documentary and experimental background, Romanian filmmaker Adina Pintilie's first foray into fiction explores our own insecurities...
Author! Author!: German Jr. Tackles a Week in the Life of a Dissident Writer
While it’s Alexey German Jr.’s (son of the equally idiosyncratic Alexey...
Continuing with some of his lost souls interests found in his award-winning TIFF debut A Heavy Heart (2015), Thomas Stuber's sophomore feature film focuses on characters who...
Eyes Without a Face: Szumowska Constructs a Christ Figure in Melancholic Farce
Love is a many splendored thing, albeit something often compromised or mutilated by...
Economically shot by this auteur's standards (half the length of 2016's A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery), Lav Diaz's just under four opus cleverly...
In the spirit of the 2011 German mini-series Dreileben (which included segments from Christian Petzold, Christoph Hochhausler, and Dominik Graf), in which a trio...